480 Materials for a Mora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



wifch age, puberulons toward the apex, the branches cyraose ; the 

 flowers at the apices, '5 in. long, the pedicel shorter ; bract- ovate- 

 lanceolate, nerved, puberulous. Sepals lanceolate. Petals longer thati 

 the sepals, linear-lanceolate, deflexed from the middle. Stamens about 

 ,9, one longer than the others. Fruit 1 in. long ; its peduncle large, 

 fleshy, dark-coloured. Jacq. Ann. I, 121, t. 35 ; DC. Prod. II, 62 ; 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 312; Wall. Cat. 990; Wight and Arn. Prodr. I, 

 168 ; Grab. Cat. Bomb. PI. 40; Dalz. and Gibs. Bomb. Plor. Suppl. 

 IS; Griff. Notul. IV, 408, t. 565, f . 3 e. /. ; Hook.fil.ri.Br.Ind.il, 

 20 ; Bedd. ¥1 Sylv. t. 163 ; Kurz For. Flora Burma, I, 310 ; Engler 

 in DC. Mon. Phan. IV, 219.— Rlieede Hort. Mai. Ill, t. 54. 



In all the Provinces, but always near villages and probably planted. 

 A native of tropical America. 



5. Gluta, Linn. 



Trees with caustic juice. Leaves crowded at the ends of the 

 branclilets, short-petioled, simple, oblong, coi-iaceous. Panicles axil- 

 lary and terminal. Flowers small, hermaphrodite. Calyx spatiiaceous, 

 bursting irregularly, caducous. Petals 4-6, adnate to the disc, imbri- 

 cate. Disc elongate, rai'ely short. Stamens 4-6, inserted on the disc, 

 filaments capillary. Ovary sessile on the disc or stipitate, oblique, 1- 

 celled ; style lateral, filiform, stigma simple ; ovule solitary, pendulous 

 from a basal funicle. Drupe sub-ligneous, stalked, dry, more or less 

 irregularly globose, irregularly tubercled or ridged ; the endocarp coria- 

 ceous, connate with the testa, juicy : cotyledons fleshy, large, connate : the 

 radicle short and incurved. — Distrlb. About six species all either 

 Malayan or Burmese. 



Calyx only about one-fourth of the length of the 

 petals, glabrous ; petioles short ('3 to '6 in. 

 long) ... ... ... ... 1. G. Benghas. 



Calyx half as long as the petals. 



Calyx glabrous; petioles slender, "6 to 1 in., 



long, ovary obliquely ovoid ... ... 2. (?. elegans. 



' Calyx tomentose ; ovary obliquely sub-i-eni- 

 foi-m-orbicular, turbercled, glabrous ; petioles 

 / very short ('1 to '35 in.) ... ... 3. G. coarctata. 



Calyx pubescent ; ovary obovoid-rotund, tomen- 

 tose ; petioles "6 or "7 in. broad, channelled ... 4. G. Wrayi. 

 1. Gluta Benghas, Linn. Mant. 293. A tree. Leaves oblanceolate- 

 oblong, the apex broad and rounded, rarely with a blunt apicnlus ; 

 gradually narrowed in the lower half to the short narrow channelled 

 petiole ; both surfaces shining and reticulate ; main nerves 18 to 20 

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